Thursday, December 01, 2005

Firefox 1.5 Final Released

firefoxFirefox 1.5 Final (Windows/Linux/Mac, Open Source, 5.0MB) was recently released.

Updates:

  • Automated update to streamline product upgrades
  • Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance
  • Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs
  • Improvements to popup blocking
  • Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut
  • Answers.com is added to the search engine list
  • Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience
  • Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers
  • Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox
  • New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6
  • Many security enhancements

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